s were recorded at Plaster Reservoir on 2026-10-22 with up to 2 individuals, and on 2026-10-24 at another location with up to 5 individuals, both confirmed by regional eBird reviewers.1 These sightings reflect an extreme irruption underway across the Interior West driven by widespread failure of ponderosa, limber, whitebark and pinyon pine crops; Type 1 Evening Grosbeaks are moving out of interior mountains into lowlands throughout the region in numbers at the upper end of recorded magnitudes.1, 2
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